Wine 1.4 on Debian Wheezy

I was delighted to read this morning that Wine 1.4 stable had been released, a quick …dpkg -l wine
… revealed that my Debian Wheezy install was running version 1.0.1, several significant versions old. There may be good stability reasons for that decision, but I can afford to be a little more adventurous on my desktop PC.

The aptitude build-dep wine is a good trick, although it does rely on the dependencies of the wine source package in the Debian repositories. Providing the build dependencies haven’t changed, then it should work. It didn’t for me on this occasion, but I can’t remember what errors I had.

But I notice that you have not used checkinstall – this means that removing the package later is a complete pain. I would recommend you use checkinstall – it intercepts the make install process and converts it into a deb package and then installs that. The beauty of that is that it can be removed later with an apt-get remove, or even upgraded – if you have been careful to get the version numbering and package name correct.